Smartphones to fuel growth of SSD market

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The Middle East last year reached six million mobile subscriptions. For SanDisk, the global leaders in flash memory this means a boom in the SSD market

"The adaptation of Solid State Drives, or SSD in Europe and Middle East and Africa were some of the biggest storage trends in 2013 and it will only continue from here," said Tareq Husseini, regional sales director Mediterranean Middle East and Africa at SanDisk. "SSD penetration is now evolving. While SSDs were particularly for gamers we are now seeing an infiltration in the corporate market. This will definitely continue into the coming years. The same goes for mobile, the UAE region is one of the top countries in the world for smartphone penetration.

The company predicted that global smartphone subscriptions would reach 5.6 billion by 2019.

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